Application Modernization
Modernize Your Applications to Enable Greater Performance, Security, and Scalability
With Qalius, you can modernize applications as an upgrade to an existing deployment on AWS or as part of a migration from on-premise environments.
Take Full Advantage of AWS Services and Infrastructure with Application Modernization
Experience the benefits of cloud architectures on AWS with Qalius application modernization services. Most migrations of legacy applications follow a lift-and-shift migration pattern, reproducing on-premise architectures in the cloud.
Qalius can modernize applications during cloud migration to AWS, or as a refactoring on AWS to improve security, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization.
Achieve Cost-Effective Scaling
Refactor your existing applications or build new modules with serverless, cloud-native architectures for scalability and very low costs that scale with transaction volume.
Add Features for Advanced Functionality
Extend the features of your application by calling the AWS service APIs for functions such as artificial intelligence, accelerated content delivery, or new business logic implemented with custom code.
Improve Security
Use AWS services to support encryption, firewalls, and secrets management within a virtual environment optimized for your application components and traffic patterns.
Experience Seamless AWS Integration
Leverage AWS services directly and fully benefit from AWS’s native platform features by adding new capabilities quickly, without sourcing, managing, or integrating third-party solutions.
“It was clear from the beginning that Qalius had the experience to support our project and configure our environment so that we had the flexibility to implement our road map. Working with Qalius felt like an extension of our team.”
Tenzin Norsang Lateng, Solutions Architect for SHIIP
AWS Application Modernization for Your Industry
At Qalius, we focus on your application’s unique requirements, including the compliance and performance standards relevant to your industry.
Healthcare Services
Qalius works with Canadian hospitals and healthcare organizations to modernize applications that handle personal health information (PHI). Using AWS and the CCCS Cloud Medium Landing Zone Accelerator, we ensure healthcare applications run reliably and meet compliance requirements.
Financial Services
Our AWS experts apply the Landing Zone Accelerator and standardized rulesets within AWS Security Hub to modernize workloads that must comply with PCI-DSS or NIST 800-53 standards, enhancing performance, reliability, and cost optimization.
Public Sector
We modernize diverse public-sector applications, including those that require compliance for Protected B data, using the CCCS Cloud Medium Landing Zone Accelerator for AWS, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient cloud operations.
Case Study
Qalius Helps Queensway Carleton Hospital Modernize SHIIP on AWS
Learn how Qalius implemented Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) to modernize the SHIIP application, providing a scalable, managed database solution that adapts to evolving needs while reducing traditional database administration overhead.
Our Application Modernization Process
When it comes to modernizing legacy systems, Qalius focuses on what is unique about your application and your business requirements to identify the modernizations that will have the greatest impact at the lowest cost and risk.
Understand the Application
As part of our process to modernize legacy applications, Qalius will work with your team to understand how your application delivers value, the compliance requirements, and the types of data processed and stored by the application.
Identify Your Requirements
When developing a modernization strategy, Qalius will work with your team to understand how your application meets current and future needs for features, scaling, cost, and operational models.
AWS Services Architecture
As part of our legacy application modernization process, Qalius will prepare architectural diagrams and associated cost forecasts to represent your application after modernization with AWS services.
Implementation
Qalius will implement the application modernization solution by providing hands-on expertise in AWS services and closely coordinating with your application and business experts.
Why Choose Qalius for Your Application Modernization?
Qalius develops cloud solutions for web applications designed to leverage AWS services and AWS global cloud infrastructure. Our application modernization experts understand how the components of an application interact with the underlying cloud platform to deliver features, performance, and security.
Experts in AWS
The Qalius team is highly certified in AWS architecture, DevOps, and operations, with verified expertise in using AWS services according to best practices such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Expert in Web Applications
As developers of custom web applications on AWS, our team has extensive experience creating and modernizing applications that use AWS services to rapidly get features to market within a proven security model.
Direct Access to Experts
When you modernize your applications with Qalius, you work directly with AWS experts who design and implement your modernization strategy, no layers of outsourcing or distant project managers.
Flexible Contracting Models
Qalius has flexible contracting models that include assessments, advice, or hands-on-keyboard to configure your application and AWS services to work great together.
Resources
Resources and Insights to Achieve AWS Success
E-Book
Designed Migrations for Installing Critical Applications in AWS
Learn why a bulk “lift and shift” isn’t necessarily the best approach when migrating your critical applications to AWS.
Whitepaper
12 Opportunities in Quick Migration Projects
Discover some of what we’ve learned about optimizing applications on AWS when there isn’t time or budget to re-architect the application.
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We Are an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner
Qalius is an Advanced Consulting Partner in the Amazon Partner Network (APN). Advanced Consulting Partners meet demanding knowledge, experience, and customer success requirements.
We are an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner
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Talk to an AWS Application Modernization Expert
Schedule a consultation with our AWS experts to discuss your specific application modernization requirements and learn how we can deliver the availability, performance, and security you need for your critical applications.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does application modernization involve, and how is it different from a lift-and-shift migration?
Application modernization involves updating and optimizing your existing application to fully leverage cloud-native features, improve performance, enhance security, and enable scalability. Unlike a lift-and-shift migration, which simply moves an on-premises application to the cloud with minimal changes, modernization transforms the application’s architecture and workflows to take full advantage of AWS services, such as serverless computing, managed databases, and AI/analytics capabilities.
How do I know if my application is a good candidate for modernization?
An application is a strong candidate for modernization if it relies on legacy infrastructure, struggles to scale, is difficult to update with new features, or faces security and compliance challenges. Qalius’ application development and modernization experts will work with your team to assess your application and identify the modernization approach that delivers the greatest impact with the lowest risk.
What are the benefits of using a serverless, cloud-native architecture for my applications?
Using a serverless, cloud-native architecture enables your applications to scale automatically with demand, reduce infrastructure management overhead, and optimize costs by paying only for the resources you actually use. It also enables faster deployment of new features, seamless integration with AWS services, and improved reliability and security.